Entitling his piece ‘A Tale of Two Ethnic Cleansings in Kashmir’, Aiyar wrote: ‘Today, Jammu is a Hindu majority area. But in 1947 it had a Muslim majority. The communal riots of 1947 fell most heavily on Jammu’s Muslims; lakhs fled into what became Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. That turned Jammu’s Muslim majority into Hindu majority… In sheer scale this far exceeded the ethnic cleansing of Pandits five decades later.’
